The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Munger Terrace In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Red Wing Iron Works
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Ottawa
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Little Marais Inn
Green Lake Mounds
Endion School In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 48 School Near Delano
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Visiting Golden Gate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Florence Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Old School In Wolverton
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown